When I started from DC this morning, I knew it was going to be a long day. I took a US Airways 10:30 shuttle to get in Boston around noon. KUG is being hosted at Hyatt Regency in downtown. By the time I checked in to hotel I was starving. Fortunately hotel was in AT&T 3G network area. I immediately got connected in 5 mins and found out this Indian place called Tantric. They had a decent buffet which was enough to fill my tummy for the rest of the day.
Our Corporate Communications department had already shipped all the material to hotel. Now I had to claim it back from the concierge desk. After claiming my stuff I ran into Clare Waldron - co-ordinator for KUG 2007. She told me that we have to set up our booth just for tonight on a different floor. Apparently Hyatt had double booked their conference area which was supposed to be used for KUG. Talk about professional hotel management.
Today was a partner's day. There were mostly partners setting up their booths apart from a few customers. Our customer from Fannie Mae was there. They are doing this year's first customer presentation tomorrow.
Around 6:30 we were called for a cocktail reception by Bill Hewitt, CEO, Kalido in hotel presidential suite. Only key partners and a few key customers were present there. That was the first time I met with Bill.
Around 7:30 we left for a dinner for Kalido partners. Dinner was hosted at Grill 23. I heard nice things about this place from a number of people and it lived up to the expectations.
It was a long day today and tomorrow is going to be even longer. Our presentation is in the later half of the day. There are other breakout sessions which sound enticing. Let's see if I am able to make it to any of them.
1 comments:
Great. Although I am wondering how was the rest of the event.
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